Once you’ve created a custom keyboard mapping, attribute scheme or other configuration in TinyTERM, you may want to distribute it to all users. There is an easier way than recreating the configuration on every single PC.

Once you’ve created a custom keyboard scheme in TinyTERM, it’s saved into the file C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM\keyboard.dat. To copy a scheme to another PC, you only need to copy the keyboard.dat file. Then the next time you start TinyTERM, the new scheme will be available on that PC as well.

Other custom configuration files that can be distributed the same way. There are several, all with the .dat extension:

attr.dat – contains attribute schemes: colors, etc.
codepage.dat – contains code pages for different character sets
login.dat – contains automatic login schemes

All this information is referenced by connection files, which have the .tpx extension. Those files contain all the connection information, but they also reference the .dat files. So no matter how much customizing you do in TinyTERM, you only need to distribute the four .dat files and any .tpx files you may have created.

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